You know, there is a serious amount of hand wringing going on over here.

Obama hasn't said anything, hasn't fought back type of comments

Yeah he has, rather effectively. We don't have an echo chamber as effective as the RW in spite of the so called liberal media.

Obama openly mocked Palin's claims of being against the bridge to nowhere and that McCain is the agent of change and the enemy of lobbyists.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/06/obama-takes-first-direct_n_124507.html

Obama's campaign strategy isn't good enough type of comments

Um, I beg to differ. They do not have to win every state. They have to win the electoral college. There still are a number of states "in play" that were never expected to be.

When you look at it that way, they are doing quite well. Mark Penn flubbed it when he didn't and just went for the big wins.

BTW, according to "overall" polls, we should have had Guiliani at the top of the Republican ticket, but it didn't work that way, did it?

other stuff, Palin, etc.

She's tough, she smarter than many give her credit for, but she's not unstoppable.

Her supporters may be the ones that give the R's heartburn.

The "hotty" comments, the Pitbull with lipstick comments that drive them wild, the out loud fantasies of her shooting things up, etc. might actually make a number of moderate women look at her with distrust.

Her holier than thou attitude will start to wear thin, too, with or without help from Obama or Biden attacks. Many of us know that person....

I think I saw a special on Farley Mowatt years ago.

Was he the one that went as far as to survive subsisting alone on the rodents that infested his tent and campsite in the middle of winter? Purely to prove that it could be done and that it provided more than enough calories?

I was impressed with his strength of convictions.

My much younger sister was like your son. She was so strong willed, angry and control minded. My mother even admitted that it took her until she was about 5 to not just love her, but to genuinely like her, too.

She was the only one of us siblings that ever ended getting a spanking...it was over a wild, violent tantrum about the milk needing to be poured to the top of Kermit's head on her glass, or maybe it was that her noodles were put on a yellow plate, not the blue one. My parent's stopped going to a restaurants at all with her because it wasn't worth the effort, the fights, the screams. She was even used as a convenient excuse for my father not to got to church, but to stay home and watch her.

She turned out fine. More than fine, she's a great, loving, sensitive person. She's tough as nails, very loyal, reliable and still very stubborn, but the kindest person I know.

Even if your kid is a dick now, he is only 2, and it probably means nothing other than he's strong willed.

now that MSNBC has removed anchoring duties at upcoming events from the mean Matthews (?!) and Olberman. That'll teach those meanies.

She can talk to Buchanan on Scarborough about the little known fact that her running mate was once in the military and was a POW. She can talk about how her faith gives her the strength to tackle the big issues, like who she can trust.

She might even consent to go on Larry King once that rabid bloodhound Campbell Brown gets taken down a notch or two and talk about the joys of motherhood and the pain of being "attacked" by the radicals for her "choice" of having a disabled child.

Wow, over at Politico they are saying that Matthews and Olberman will no longer be anchoring upcoming news events.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/MSNBC_shakeup_Olbermann_and_Matthews_no_longer_anchoring.html#comments

If you read the comments, well, don't, it's depressing. The posters are even frightened of radical leftists Gregory, Mitchell and sympathizer Scarborough.

Yeah, well's it's a practice not only condoned by Palin, it's a practice both defended and promoted by her. We can pretend it's not going on, but it is.

And KateTex, vote for whoever the hell you want, do whatever the hell you want, but stop being disengenuous. You disgust me.

I fucking abhor the practice of "culling" wolves this way. I also have a long laundry list of things I abhor that I don't daily list out, because on the scheme of things, they all seem less important than invading Iran and what has happened in the Dept. Of Justice.

That doesn't mean I still can't be upset about this, if you're not, good for you. When was the last time you decried child porn? Hmm? Does that must mean it doesn't bother you?

Vote for McCain (most likely) or throw your protest vote to Hillary who hasn't asked for it, and I daresay, if what I've seen about her and her values and strength of character, doesn't want it, not if it gives the 4 more years to Bush policies.

I'm lucky that my public education in AZ and Hawaii taught me about evolution and the electoral college. But those were the good old days.

I do remember that most of my fellow students absolutely hated our mandatory Civics class and were bored out of their skulls, even thought the mayor was our teacher and was quite animated and interesting. Many probably have no recall, it was as important to them as diagramming sentences is to the average kid.

I also do not remember my CCD class (Catholic after school class...similar to Sunday school, but on a weekday) teaching about Adam and Eve other than as a biblical story, and definitely they didn't dispute evolution.